On October 9, 2025, CASW Connector hosted a Chat discussing how journalists can approach the firehose of science funding freezes, cuts and reinstatements during the Trump administration. Panelists and participants
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On Sunday, November 8, 2024, CASW Connector hosted a hybrid session at the ScienceWriters2024 meeting that introduced science writers to audience engagement practices. The CASW team co-created the session itself
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“Produced in partnership by The Open Notebook and the Reynolds Journalism Institute, the Navigator is designed to equip reporters on any beat to bring science and data into their stories
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The Uproot Resource Library includes this guide to Atmospheric Rivers, or ARs, providing facts, reporting examples, terms, research areas, potential sources and more.
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“The team behind the SciComm Identities Project (SCIP) has created a source book for journalists covering climate and environmental topics to provide a more representative range of experts who are
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“Newsrooms in 2025 face a significant challenge covering the effort to upend decades of rigorous vaccine science and the policies it has guided. Misinformation and disinformation about the development, effectiveness,
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“This is a guide to finding alternative places to access important environmental government data being removed from public online sources. The guide is focused on information relevant to the work
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“AHCJ is part of a growing coalition of news nonprofits, journalism scholars and others working to conserve and protect vital health data that was previously publicly available on federal websites.”
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STAT began monitoring the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s data platform regularly on Jan. 31, 2025. The page continues to be updated whenever CDC data changes are discovered. You’ll
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“The Data Rescue Tracker is a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you can use
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Explore NSF grants from 1960-2025, as well as historical awards (made prior to 1976), compiled at Harvard by data scientist Jonathan Gilmour. Subjects include Arts and Humanities; Astronomy and Astrophysics;
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This is a spreadsheet tracking study sections that were canceled or delayed after the Trump administration took office. Study sections are required meetings to review NIH grant applications. By law,
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This Google Sheet lists “changes in graduate admissions following funding pauses and executive orders, particularly in regards to the NIH.” Includes a link to a Grad Admissions Impact Survey.
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“This map displays environmental justice (EJ) grants the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded under the Inflation Reduction Act and other Congressional Appropriations that the EPA Administrator intends to cancel.
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“Unbreaking is a community-powered knowledge-making project, made by a growing collective of volunteers with experience in journalism, tech, mutual aid, government, research, and organizing.” Issues being tracked include data security,
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“The Impact Project is a nonpartisan data and research initiative that makes government data more transparent and accessible, and produces actionable insights to help reimagine how government, private industry, nonprofits,
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To demonstrate how science and health research fuels the economy, supports jobs and improves health outcomes, the SCIMaP team provides interactive, data-driven visuals of the impact of federal health research
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“Grant Witness is a project to track the termination of grants of scientific research agencies under the Trump administration in 2025. We currently are tracking terminations of grants from the
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The Open Notebook and the National Association of Science Writers’ Diversity Committee partnered to create this series, which “aims to examine the experiences, expertise and perspectives of science journalists from
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“As data centers are being built in more and more U.S. localities to meet demand for generative AI, they are consuming massive amounts of energy, increasing electricity costs for consumers,
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“This GIJN guide will describe what resources are available and what questions to ask about methane emissions from landfills and how to reduce them. Examples of great investigations on the
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“GIJN’s Resource Center is here to help journalists expand their knowledge and skills. The Center holds more than 2,000 items in 14 languages – from tip sheets and guides to
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“It’s tempting to proclaim that visual languages are more universal than spoken and written languages, and that the very act of presenting information in the form of a drawing instead
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